Nursing Homes in Riverside, RI - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Elderwood At Riverside
Medicare and Medicaid
Location: 100 Wampanoag Trail, Riverside, Rhode Island 02915
Ratings: Phone: (401) 438-4275

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Appeals court to weigh challenge to health law subsidies

Opponents of the health law argue that the legislative language never says subsidies can be used to defray premium costs for low- and moderate-income people who live in states that did not set up their own online marketplaces and are served instead by the federal exchange. Also, in news about how the law is being implemented, a look at who is exempted from the mandate to get insurance.

Could we really reverse aging to prolong life?

It's only a matter of time before we can reverse the aging process. It hasn't been already achieved because the human body is extremely complex and does itself a lot of different types of damage.

Salk researchers develop new computer program to measure blepharosplasm severity

If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm - uncontrollable muscle contractions around the eye - they'll often come away with two different conclusions on the severity of the patient's symptoms.

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awards $1.9 million grant to tackle global water and sanitation challenges

Good intentions are not the same as good results - as much as half of all water and sanitations systems in developing countries fail after five years.

Nursing Home

A nursing home (also called skilled nursing facility) is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living.

A skilled nursing facility (SNF) may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation.

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